techanalyst

Do you by any chance use a Clevo (4GB) card?

Totally, even much more is safe, but unless you use a modified vbios you will be limited by +135MHz. Also keep in mind that I didn't modify the uefi part of the vbios, this means you can only use a modified vbios if you disable secure boot / fast boot and enable the legacy option roms.

Wasnt working for me so just switched to this one not saying it doesnt work just I havent found the combination to make it work so I tried this out. Trying to hit the 11k+ results in 3dmark11 but I dont think thats happening

Whats the safe limit for overclocking here and can I use MSI Afterburner? like a +100 on GPU or?

Yeah sorry for pointing out the vbios might have been the issue, however it seemed logical, starting with single discrete everything was awesome, enabling SLI and on reboot acted like no drivers were installed at all (Either card). I for sure though that removing the drivers 100%, restoring to a point before I put drivers in for the cards at all, no network so no auto download etc all this in my mind pointed to this on change, but as I said reinstall windows from scratch cleared it all up

Reinstalling windows from scratch cleared up the problem, possibly hardware address issue or something regarded, because I uninstalled all vid drivers and tried four versions with same result, reinstall windows install latest drivers everything is good again.

Hey svl7 thanks for replying Yes the HD is GPT (three 512GB SSDs raid 0) which I set legacy boot, then go in secure mode and it shows as a UEFI loader (might be the issue though?) Whenever I reboot though the machines does a quick on, quick off and quick on almost like the cards are not picked up and back to Ivy Bridge.

So I updated to the VBios in this thread http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware/2658-%5Bm14x-r2%5D-%5Bm17x-r4%5D-%5Bm18x-r2%5D-uefi-fast-boot-secure-boot-gpu-issues-%2Asolved%2A-2.html both cards were updated and now whenever I go to enable SLI the system will restart and when entering windows it acts like it doesn't have drivers installed. Help? These are the 680Ms direct from dell

So I have A09 and I installed this Vbios for my 680m and I still cant get a secure boot with my nvidias loaded, always boots with the intel